Asylum's ultimate stop motion video collection

Last week we stumbled upon this, a piece of internet genius so profoundly amazing, you stop whatever you're doing and email it to everyone you know.

Basically, it's a stop motion video of a man getting a tattoo done - not any old tattoo, mind, but a tattoo of a whole bunch of cameras, all the way up his forearm. It's ludicrously geeky, and it's ludicrously clever, and we loved it, loved it, loved it.

But this made us think back to all the other stop motion classics that have helped us wile away the hours over the past few years, all the toy characters brought to life by just photographing them, moving them a bit, photographing them again, and so on.

And so began a right royal rummage around the back of the internet for all the best stop motion gems, painstakingly made, and quickly watched. And now you can share in our jolty, YouTubey joy. Yep, we're just nice like that

Tattoo camera nerd sleeve -- Here are the follow up parts 2 and 3


Flip book-style stop motion parkour -- slightly less dangerous than the real thing, infinitely more time-consuming


'Deadline' -- a stop motion adventure with Post-its


Ten Thousand Pictures of You -- a stop motion drama


Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie -- the bed-based music video for the quirky folkster


Mystery Guitar Man plays The Flight Of The Bumblebee -- for an introduction to the man himself, click here


Transformers' Bumblebee beats Optimus Prime -- NSFW due to fruity language


Iron Man vs Bruce Lee -- PatrickBoivin, you're an absolute genius


YouTube Street Fighter -- "Hadouken!"


Breakdancing Batman -- did you know The Joker could dance? Us neither!


Minilogue/hitchhikers choice -- crazy but inspired doodlings


Tony vs. Paul -- the ultimate stop motion battle!


Human Tetris -- from the geniuses at www.notsonoisy.com


Human Skateboard -- bailed kickflips suddenly become twice as painful


Drum and piano in stop motion -- Can't play the drums? Can't play the piano? No problem!


Western Spaghetti by PES -- an not-actually-that-tasty YouTube classic


Process Enacted -- creative-type-person Jordan C Greenhalgh gets snap happy


Light-Paint Piano Player by Ryan Cashman



MUTO -- a wall-painted animation by BLU


Origami In the Pursuit of Perfection -- an Asics advert by Mabona Origami